School: Naomh Pádraig, Cill Choinnigh (roll number 13265)

Location:
Saint Patrick's, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Br. Seosamh Mac Aodhgáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0856, Page 023

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  1. Terry Walsh, 25 Walkin Street, Kilkenny.
    I got these stories from my father. (49 years)
    Thatching
    There was a man named Jim O Shea who used live in number 27 Walkin Street, Kilkenny. He is dead forty years. He was a very good thatcher and the people used to ask him to thatch their houses. One day he was thatching an old house in which nobody lived. While he was thatching the roof collapsed and he got smothered.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
          1. thatching (~353)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Terry Walsh
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Walkin Street, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    Mr Walsh
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    49
    Address
    Walkin Street, Co. Kilkenny
  2. A Cooper
    There was a man named Bill Delaney who lived in Walkin Street, Kilkenny. He was a cooper and he used to work for Patrick Walsh. Bill used to make barrels for him up in a loft. During his spare time he used to make firkins for the country people. One day while he was making a firkin he fell from the loft and died.
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